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I’ve always had a very strong bias toward buying everything I possible can, locally. I’ve been this way my whole life and I’ve generally had the luxury of being “able” to pay more to support my neighbors - so to speak. But the tiny Feed and Seed in my adopted community at my hunting farm...

I had about 10 acres of basswood and hard maple clearcut this summer and I just finished dragging the trails clean and getting about 1” of heavily compacted soil loosened up. Basically destroyed my drag doing it. Nevertheless, it’s done and ready for seed. The trails and log landing area I’m...

Suppose you were building a new home at your hunting farm and planned to have a yard / apple orchard area of around 3.5 acres. You also have around 5 acres of food plots and 2miles of trails you keep mowed today with your tractor & bush hog……but both are easily smooth enough for a ZT in dry...

With all of the rain we’ve had this year I’ve only been able to partially mow my clover / chicory plots (5 acres) once. Even 4 weeks ago, any low spot either had standing water or was so soft I dared not go in. But I cut most of it about 8” tall (removed 4”). It absolutely blew up since...

For a long time I’ve planned to “become” a reloader one day. But I’m probably not going to do that. I have about 300 rounds of personally once-fired, de-primed, .300 WSM brass that I’d like to sell. Most of it (240 rounds) is the Winchester Supreme silver brass cases. The rest are regular...

Before I became a tractor owner I always walked past the “jumbo” tool rack and secretly wished I had a reason buy some. I now have wrenches and sockets up to 1.5”, giant crescent and pipe wrench’s, and a 30” breaker bar. The only sizes I get much use out of are the 1 5/16” and the 1.5” on...

Any suggestions out there for a decent respirator? Mid-tier priced? Right now my uses would be on Gly, 24D, Triclopyr, and Bonide on apple trees. I’d use it about 4 times per year with a backpack sprayer and/or atv sprayer. What are the attributes I should look for in a mask?

My wife had some time to kill and stopped at a yard sale out in the middle of nowhere Northern Wi. She met an elderly man and talked with him as she shopped the stuff he was selling after his wife’s passing and a whole lifetime together. She was bawling I’m sure 😂 He got to telling her a...

I’ve used my backpack sprayer without great success which leads to thinking of buying a fogger for spraying my mature trees. But I’m cheap….and I started thinking about a way to not spend that money on a single-tasker. I have about 30 mature trees up to about 25’ tall. But if you held your...

I have a JD4066R that is pretty tight in the cab but I’d really like to be able to carry a short barrel rifle in it while I’m out on the property. Possibly a pistol too, but a rifle for sure. Likely an AR platform (.22 or .223) or some sort of brush gun / guide gun….with a shotgun tube and a...

I really enjoy seeing other people’s food plot weapons. So post ‘em up! Implements too! I’ll start with a couple of my baby :)

I’m guessing it’s not the final word but I, for one, liked doing business with them. I planned to do more in the future because, in spite of the upfront pricing model, I felt they made the absolute best and I was willing to pay a little more and wait a little longer because I could 100% prove...

I know frost seeding is probably over discussed, but I’ve also never had a year like this. My plots will have no snow by Sunday (46f!!) and I was thinking of hitting it with some clover. The next week has the perfect freeze thaw forecast. But compared to when I normally frost seed this is...

I have about 3/4 acre of “yard” that needs mowing at our farm a couple times a year and it’s a pain to haul my mower from home to do it. I call it a yard and it is, but it’s very rough and it’s been hard on my “good” mower. So I’ve been looking around at used and new riding mowers in the sub...

Have you seen them before? I have in northern Wi a few times, but this year seemed like a bumper crop. These pics were taken over Christmas this year. They tasted very sweet with just a hint of actual cranberry flavor.

I’ve always had a couple of older guys who ask me for 15# of good venison trim to have a small batch of sausage made. No problem. But this year has been kind of crazy. As I sit here, having taken zero deer with my bow so far, I have 5 people wanting a whole deer. One is a BIL who just lost...

I’m sure this has been discussed before but, because of my job, I keep coming back to it. Assumption : That I start to lose nitrogen the moment I spread fertilizer and will continue to lose it to the atmosphere until water washes it into the soil. Nitrogen evaporates. Since I happen to know...

I can’t believe it….like winning the lottery!!!! Now I have to find an outfitter and make myself a little less round over the summer! Anybody here have and thoughts or advice for a guy on his first, and likely last, elk hunt in Utah?

I use my 25gal ATV sprayer (Northstar Boom) for all chemical applications at my place. Mostly Fruit tree stuff, Gly, 24D, and foliar fertilizer. Is there a better way to clean it up between chemicals than simply rinsing it a few times with clean water? I feel like I waste too much water...

We’ve had a record snow year that started in mid November buy burying thousands and thousands of real nice turnips in 2 of my 1 acre plots. Our first snowfall was 17” and it never let up until about a week ago when we got multiple 80f days in a row. It’s said we had 140” total but I can...